Two days before the away match against Lecce, Fabio Pisacane introduced the match and immediately warned his Cagliari team: "After the one against Parma, this is the second final of our mini-championship. We'll play to win, but with intelligence ."
The coach will have to do without Luvumbo and Radunovic, but hopes to have captain Pavoletti back in the squad for the first time this season . Friday night's match, however, is a game that offers special emotions from a personal perspective: "Because I have a special bond with Lecce, it was my last time as a player . I'm sorry I didn't give as much as I would have liked, and I want to remember Graziano Fiorita (the Giallorossi masseur who passed away last season). I send a hug to his wife Azzurra."
But in Lecce, Pisacane will also be reunited with Di Francesco, the coach who effectively ended his playing career at Cagliari : "Our relationship was complicated, we didn't get along. But we recently spoke and cleared things up, and that's a closed chapter."
Better to focus on the match, then: "We'll have to be careful reading the flanks, where Lecce can be dangerous . We'll have to be compact and clear-headed, because it won't be an easy match in a heated atmosphere."